Overview
This education kit explores the science and issues related to water use in Alberta and now contains new information about climate change, energy development and stewardship.
The resource includes a poster to project in your classroom, student worksheets and a teacher’s guide full of activities that will help you enrich this unit.
Hard copy resources are distributed at teachers conventions and during Inside Education’s no-cost teacher professional development and youth summit programs.
Running Water Poster
Running Water Teacher’s Guide
Program of Study
Science, Social Studies, CTF/CTS
Curriculum Outcomes
Earth Systems
Grade 2 - How can Earth’s components and relationship to the Sun be explored?
Grade 3 - What visible changes can be identified by examining Earth’s surface?
Grade 4 - How does Earth sustain life?
Grade 5 - How can climate and its effects be understood?
Grade 6 - What relationships exist between climate and changes on Earth?
Living Systems
Grade 3 - How do plants and animals interact?
Grade 6 - In what ways are ecosystems complex?
Grade 7 Science: Interactions and Ecosystems
Grade 8 Science: Freshwater and Saltwater Systems
Grade 9 Science: Environmental Chemistry
Outdoor Education
Science 14: Investigating Matter and Energy in the Environment
Science 20: Changes in Living Systems
Biology 20: Energy and Matter Exchange in the Biosphere, Ecosystems and Population Change
CTS
